More laws won't stop rampages

As I read today's letters to the editor I thought, how sad that our American educational system has fallen to the level of Myrna Davidson in providing a true understanding of our history ("We must ban some weapons," Dec. 20).

When the Founding Fathers penned the Second Amendment to the Constitution, the citizens of the colonies owned rifled flintlocks, much more accurate than the smooth-bore "Brown Bess" muzzle loaders that the British soldiers used. Therefore, the Founding Fathers owned the latest and greatest in personal protection for the time. More than we currently are allowed to own.

The Second Amendment was not put in place for hunting as those favoring gun control like to point out, but to fully back what our Founding Fathers penned in Paragraphs 1 and 3 of the Declaration of Independence, to give Americans the rights and abilities to overthrow a tyrannical government if need be.

Next, it has been illegal in the U.S. to own fully automatic weapons by private citizens since 1934, almost 80 years.

There are an estimated 20,000 gun laws on the books in this country. Those did not stop Adam Lanza, nor would additional laws. If a person is determined to commit a mass murder in a grade school, many household items would work.

Maybe those POWMs (Paranoid Old White Men) are worried because they (for the most part), have been the ones sent to stop despots, like Hitler (who outlawed private ownership of firearms), to Korea (where private ownership was illegal) to Vietnam (where citizens couldn't own firearms), to Iraq (where private ownership was not allowed).

The Japanese chose not to invade the U.S. during World War II because they knew that Americans had the ability to privately own guns and fight back.

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More laws won't stop rampages

Larry Watkins Nixa As I read today's letters to the editor I thought, how sad that our American educational system has fallen to the level of Myrna Davidson in providing a true understanding of our